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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Ortiz defeated Berto ~ Ortiz is the new WBC welterweight champion

I had completely forgotten that Victor Ortiz was fighting Andre Berto tonight. I wanted to watch this fight for a couple of reasons. 1) I can't wait for Manny Pacquiao v Shane Mosley and this fight was going to serve as an appetizer, and 2) I have a friend, John, who loves boxing and thinks highly of Berto.

I saw a tweet from Dan Rafael and immediately switched from the Portland Trail Blazers v Dallas Mavericks game to HBO for the fight.

I'm not going to do a post for the fight, but for those of you that want a summary, here are my (Twitter user: TheWirk) round by round Tweets. The most recent ones are towards the top. Enjoy and catch the replay, if you can. It was a good fight!

i was right ~ congrats to ortiz! now back to basketball... #berto v #ortiz

i have #ortiz winning and beating #berto. announce the winner so i can go back to basketball #blazers v #mavs!

fight over - i give it to ortiz #berto v #ortiz

ortiz looks like he's one round away from victory. this is a great appetizer for the #mosley v #pacquiao fight on 5/7! #berto v #ortiz

berto kept backing up until he found the ropes to hold himself up. ortiz bringing the offense. #waitingforbertotofall #berto v #ortiz

i know nothing about scoring boxing, but i have ortiz as the winner so far... #berto v #ortiz

11th to come #berto v #ortiz

berto just hit the mat, but it wasn't a knockdown. we have a slugfest now! #berto v #ortiz

it's the 10th and ortiz just lost one point for the punch to the back of the head... announcers don't seem to agree. #berto v #ortiz

9th round... ortiz keeps hitting berto behind his head ~ the next time he loses a point. #berto v #ortiz

@danrafaelespn you weren't kidding! you can hear the crowd's boos when they show mayweather on tv #berto v #ortiz

berto in corner being told to go for the body. the 8th starts NOW #berto v #ortiz

both guys are def fighting and in it to win it now... berto just did a weeble wobble impression, and did not fall down. #berto v #ortiz